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Mon, 03 Aug 2015 01:40:17 +0200MYOBen-gbIntel IDF 2015 to take place on August 18thhttp://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/38099-intel-idf-2015-to-takes-place-on-august-18th
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Expect Skylake and more

It has been a public secret that Intel was planning to pull in the Intel Developers Forum to August 2015.

It is now official, as Intel finally announced that instead of hosting this year's IDF in the second week of September like many years before, it will hold its biggest event between August 18th and 20th. There was one huge problem with the second week of September timing. What happened a few times in the last few years is that Apple had its keynote almost at the exact same time as Intel. Apple usually holds its iPhone event in the second week or September.

Key members of the press would have to choose which one to addend, in case that they were on Apple love list. The second reason we hear is that Skylake, second generation 14nm core is ready to launch. Intel wants to make a big splashy announcement at its biggest event. CEO Bryan Krzanich is expected to hold a day one presentation and show Skylake in action, as well as the successor, probably called Cannon Lake, a new 10nm part.

Intel cannot wait to show you the desktop, notebooks that will define late 2015 and Intel is anxious to show you a cableless notebook. The company showed off a wireless charger last year, but this year it will launch it commercially.

Skylake-S, Skylake-U and Skylake-Y SKUs are expected to start shipping in Q4 2015, or about a month after Intel's introduction. Some other versions of Skylake will launch a bit later in Q1 2016. Intel has quite a strong roadmap for late 2015 and early 2016, but many are anxious to see Intel's 10nm plans. Last time we heard there were a Cannonlake 10nm processor scheduled for late 2016, but we will have to wait and see if Intel can manage to introduce 10nm processors in 2016.

Intel’s new CEO Brian Krzanich just said that tablets based on Intel silicon, most likely Bay Trail based Atom, can ship before the end of the year in the sub-$100 category.

This is definitely a popular market and Intel has a good chance, just as good as Google had with the $199 Nexus 7 last year. People like great products that don’t cost an arm and leg.

He didn’t go into specifics about the specs but he showed a Lenovo product that might be it. We will know more later this year. The whole keynote seemed like a big show of what Intel can do and that it can do it quickly. Many punters are losing confident in Intel, but the company stresses it can execute well and innovate in the years to come.

Intel has ignored the ARM treat for too long and it is having a hard time adjusting, seizing a bit of that phone and tablet market that the ARM alliance silently conquered over the last few years.

A sub-$100 tablet gives them a good fighting chance, let’s wait for the specs and hope that they are decent, with a 720p at least, and with decent performance.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has kicked off IDF 2013 and he just showed off the first 14nm Broadwell based notebook. He said that Broadwell based notebooks will ship next year.

The notebook appeared to be working just fine and Krzanich said that by the end of the year Intel plans to ship the first 14nm chips. It helps if you have 60 billion dollars worth of fabs. The notebook looked slim and it looks like Intel is keeping up the tick tock routine. It didn’t went into specifics when it comes next year but it comes next year.

He showed a Windows 8 notebook playing Cut the Rope, meaning that at least one application works on this early version of silicon. Full scale production is definitely kicking off in 2014.

A few were surprised that Intel didn’t mention the phone business at the IDF keyone. The phone market has become a huge deal for Intel and despite significant leaps and the first design wins, Intel chose not to mention this at all.

The general feeling is that Intel won’t talk about phones at all and that this part of business will probably align with big phone oriented trade shows like CES in the US or Mobile World congress in Barcelona. Here in San Francisco, at IDF 2012 they didn’t talk about it at all.

Tomorrow's keynote from Renée James, Senior Vice President General Manager, Software and Services Group is titled "Security and Services in an Age of Transparent Computing" and we are quite sure that it won’t include a showcase of next generation phone silicon.

Current phones have a CPU core codenamed Penwell and a system-on-chip called Medfield, while the next generation is codenamed Silvermont for the CPU and the ScC is called Merrifield.

From what we know Silvermont is 22nm and should come next year. All these details came from sources a while ago and haven’t changed since and Intel didn’t talk on the record about any phone stuff.

Our good friend Mr. Rob Squires, an old retired Inquirer lad has managed to score some good pictures of a Fusion core.

We saw the live demo and we can confirm what our own Nick Farell said here. AMD traditionally has a hotel booked across the street from IDF and tends to steal quite a few journalists and show off its latest and greatest stuff. As you can see, it's a good strategy.

The chip on the picture is very small and it has an 18W TDP. This dual-core chip, codenamed Zacate is very cool as well. It should be able to run without a fan, but the version we saw had a fan on it.

The small silicon is doing just fine against a Core i5 based notebook, based on Intel’s Arrandale core but we are not sure how well it competes against Sandy Bridge. We can also tell you that the chip is two times smaller than Sandy Bridge that we’ve seen and it looks like they should do just fine even against Atoms in the netbook market.

AMD claims it has quite a few design wins, but it cannot talk about them just yet. Oh yes, no one wants to talk about clocks at this time, either.